Éphrem-A. Brisebois (1850 – 1890), Canadian, politician, soldier, and police officer
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Antoine Ephrem Cartier (1836–1910) was a businessman famous for helping develop the beginnings of Ludington, Michigan, in the nineteenth century.
They are works by early Christian and Byzantine churchmen that would have been available to Kirill in Slavonic translations: John Chrysostom, Epiphanius of Salamis, Ephrem of Syrus, Gregory of Nazianzus, Eusebius of Caesarea, and the scholia of Nicetas of Heraclea, Titus of Bostra, Theophylact of Ohrid, and the chronicler George the monk (George Hamartolus).
In the spring of 1900, as the Boxer Rebellion was unfolding across northern China, Ephrem Giesen was located at Xinzhuang, south of Machang, where a Catholic fortified stronghold had been established.
Of his writings probably the most important are his exhaustive commentaries on the text of the Old and New Testaments, in which he skillfully interwove and summarized the interpretations of previous writers such as Ephrem, Chrysostom, Cyril, Moses Bar-Kepha and John of Dar, whom he mentions together in the preface to his commentary on St Matthew.
Bishop Ephrem, killed on 7 March 304 in Tomis (modern Constanţa), was the first known Christian martyr of this region, persecution continuing under the emperors Diocletian, Galerius, Licinius and Julian the Apostate.
Piccio is married to Nena Hernández, an Antiqueña who lives in Belison, Antique, and together they have seven children: Vincent Bernard, Elizabeth Mary, Philip Gregory, Bernard, Robert Ephrem, Cristopher, and Paul Anthony.